Ford

Mackinac

Picture rocks

After leaving the peninsula area, we moved on to picture rocks national lakeshore. We couldn’t do the drive without a stop or 2 including the shrine of bishop baraga. 

Keweenaw peninsula

After leaving our campsite at the apostle islands, we visited a little town on the way and learned about local fishing and maritime shipping industries. From there we made our way over the porcupine mountains and to our next campground right on Lake Superior. 

We did go on a small hike to a copper mine and enjoyed the area. 

Today (Tuesday I think) we left for the Keneewa peninsula. We stopped in houghton to get the tires on the camper replaced (they were starting to not look so good) and visited the home of the first professional us hockey team and Michigan tech.  We got to our campsite by early afternoon and spent the day driving around listening to bossy Brad (guide along app) we learned about copper mining and the history in The area. We stopped at the Jampot for some good stuff from the monks. 

The kids did some swimming in Lake Superior and caught some fish at the lake near the campground. Weather has been great. 

2024 Adventures

There is a chance this will be our last family vacation as a full family. With Nate starting college this fall and Bennett next June, we will see what the possibilities are for future trips as a family. 

We started out on Friday (the 5th) and drove down to. Minneapolis area. We pulled into the lake Elmo campground around 6 and Mary and I went to have supper at the melting pot. Even though our anniversary is Saturday, we knew it would be a busy day and wanted to have a special meal. 

Saturday Eli had a presentation with th wheel partnership society for his space camp scholarship. Everyone else went to the como zoo and Eli and I went to the CONvergence conference. Eli did a great job answering all of the questions about his experience.for dinner we went to Cossettas in St. Paul and had some pizza. Then off to the races. While we did a terrible job picking the winners, it was fun. Nate and I played a little blackjack in between the final races and I won back most of what we had lost on horse racing. 

Sunday we got up early and went to church at the St. Paul cathedral, grabbed some Dunkin and hit the road. We arrived at the apostle islands with plenty of time to get a good hike in. It had been raining most of the afternoon but stopped as we were setting up camp. On the hike we got some good views of the sea caves. We debated about renting kayaks but none of the outfitters called back. Still good times.